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Emergent geometry, thermal CFT and surface/state correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study a conjectured correspondence between any codimension two convex surface and a quantum state (SS-duality for short). By generalizing thermofield double formalism to continuum version of the multi-scale entanglement renormalization ansatz (cMERA) and using the SS-duality, we show that thermal geometries naturally emerge as a result of hidden quantum entanglement between boundary CFTs. We therefore propose a general framework to emerge the thermal geometry from CFT at finite temperature. As an example, the case of 2d2d CFT is considered. We calculate its information metric and show that it is either BTZ black hole or thermal AdS as expected.

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@article{arxiv.1606.07628,
  title  = {Emergent geometry, thermal CFT and surface/state correspondence},
  author = {Wen-Cong Gan and Fu-Wen Shu and Meng-He Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07628},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

13 pages, 3 figures

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